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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

V JOHN W. TULLIS, OF FAIRFIELD, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF OF HIS RIGHT TO JAMES A. NEVINS, OF SAME PLACE.

CLOTH ES-POUNDE R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 224,747, dated February 17, 1880.

Application filed September 15, 1879.

10 ence being had to the accompanying drawin gs, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Myinvention relates to certain new and useful improvements in the class of atmospheric 1'5 clotheswashers, and more especially to the class of cone or cup shaped washers employing a spring for yielding upward when press- Hing down upon the clothes and preventing the clothes from rushing up too far in the cone or cup wheii it is forced down upon the clothes and the invention consists in the combination, with a cone or cup shaped dish, of a central supporting coiled spring and a series of small radiating coiled or spiral springs connected to i 2 5 the central spring and to the lower or bottom part of the dish, said central spring holding each one of the small springs in its proper position and permitting them all to vibrate at the same time, all as will be hereinafter fully described.

In the drawings, A represents the usual sheet-metal cone or cup shaped dish employed in this class of washers, provided with the diaphragm A near its top, as shown, and provided at its apex with a tube, 13, for the re- 4o ccption of a handle. Centrally secured to the diaphragm is a large coiled spring, 0, extending downward to nearly the base of the cone or cup.

D representsaseries of small spiral or coiled springs secured to the lower coil of the coiled 5 spring 0, and radiating outward and secured to the bottom partof the cone or cup at c.

The effect and advantages of my improved construction of clothes-pounder are that, while the clothes are prevented from being forced too far up in the cone or cup, the small spiral or coiled springs D rub the clothes lightly, thus softening and loosening the dirt both in their yielding or vibrating action, when the pounder is forced down upon the clothes, and in their reaction or vibration, when the pounder is raised after being pressed down upon the clothes, the reaction of said springs also assisting in raising the pounder and relieving the lifting labor incident to this class of clothes-washers.

I am aware that both a central coiled spring and a conical spiral spring have been used in connection with cone or cup shaped washers, and such I do notdesire to claim, broadly, as my invention; but,

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with a cone or cup shaped dish, A, of a central supporting coiled spring, 0, and a series of small radiating spiral or coiled springs, I), connected to said central coiled spring and at or near the lower edge of the'cone or cup shaped dish, substantially as and for the purpose herein shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing l have hereunto set my hand this 26th day of August, 1879.

JOHN w. TULLIS.

Witnesses:

W. H. VANDEWATER, M. R. BACON. 

